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Michael Murray

Michael is one of Lucid's co-founders and has led the company since its inception in 2004, creating important alliances with universities, strategic partners

Heather Gadonniex

Heather Gadonniex, LEED AP, is the EPD Program Manager at UL Environment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of UL.

Ashley Katz

Ashley Katz is responsible for developing, executing, and evaluating public relations, communications and marketing strategies to support and promote

Greenbuild 2011 Celebrates What’s NEXT for Green Building

By: Ashley Katz | Sustainability| Community. Innovation. Inspiration. Conversation. Celebration. To members of the global green building community, these words describe the excitement and promise of the green building movement and its future, all of which neatly intersect at USGBC’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Next month, thousands of members of this diverse community will [&hellip

The LEED Green Building Certification System

By: Ashley Katz | Past Issue – Sustainability| More than 1.4 million square feet of construction space is being certified every day. Over the past 10 years, green building has grown into a global phenomenon that has changed the way we think about the built environment. As buildings, homes and whole communities of all shapes [&hellip

Transparency and Authenticity through Environmental Product Declarations

By: Heather Gadonniex| Past Issue – Sustainability| Transparency. This buzz word is swarming the rooms of building product manufacturers, architects, designers, specifiers and building owners. Recently, it popped up in a new LEED pilot credit and was seen in the second draft release of LEED 2012. However, for many the meaning behind this word is [&hellip

Show Me The Numbers: Getting To Net Zero

By: Michael Murray| Past Issue – Sustainability| Net zero energy buildings – buildings designed to generate as much energy as is consumed over the course of a year – have recently gained important footholds in architectural practice, owners’ expectations and public policy. In the last five years, the 2030 Challenge was formally adopted by the [&hellip

The Continuing Sustainability Conversation

By: Dean Hill, ASLA | Past Issue – Sustainability| In today’s design and construction environment it would be hard to imagine any conversation that did not include the discussion of green building and sustainability. Sustainability has many meanings and the pursuit of this elusive principle has become a daily endeavor for designers, design firms, product [&hellip